In Yasaki, when tourists started to return due to the effects of corona... Hitoyoshi's ryokan owner was July 7 at 17:13
The owner of a well-established ryokan in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, who was severely damaged by the flooding of the Kuma River, interviewed and suffered from the fear of the water and the damage of Yasasaki that the tourist finally returned due to the influence of the new coronavirus. I talked about my thoughts.
Founded in the Taisho era in Hitoyoshi City, "Ichifuji Ryokan" is a long-established 2-story inn located about 15 meters from the embankment of the Kuma River, and was part of the townscape of an onsen town.
At around 6 am on the 4th of this month, Satoshi Matsuda (35), who runs the inn, sent his grandmother who lives next to the inn to the shelter and returned to the shelter, where a muddy stream hit the parapet of the bridge and made a heavy splash of water. I saw a scene I had never seen.
Feeling dangerous, Mr. Matsuda immediately returned to the inn and called on the guests to evacuate the car, but immediately after that the muddy stream began to cover the road and he gave up the car and guided everyone to the rooftop.
Mr. Matsuda said, "I felt the fear of flooding at a speed that I could not imagine. There were places where I was alert."
I heard that the Kuma River flooded in 1965 and flooded two-thirds of the city with my parents' generations, and I was prepared to do so, but I could not imagine the damage so far.
In the video taken by Mr. Matsuda, the road in front of the ryokan became muddy and cars and other vehicles were swept one after another.
It was safely evacuated everyone rooftop, inherited by've had Inns soaked in water up to the second floor, or can be reopened to the repair, says the prospect is not cut off.
Mr. Matsuda said, "It was about the time when the self-restraint due to the new coronavirus was over, and the reservations from customers began to come in. There was no witness of the disaster. When the town will be restored, how long can the inn continue? I don't know, but I have no choice but to continue talking about this disaster until the next generation, and hold hands together with Hitoyoshi to recover.”